Explosion and fire analysis of steel frames using fiber element approach

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 991-1000

  Richard Liew, J Y ^a   Chen, Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blast loads; Explosions; Fire resistance; Steel frames; Strain rate; Transient response

Indexed keywords

ELASTOPLASTICITY; EXPLOSION TESTING; FIRE RESISTANCE; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; IMPACT TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

BLAST LOADS; FIRE ANALYSIS; STEEL FRAMES; TRANSIENT RESPONSE;

STEEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 13944253958     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2004)130:7(991)     Document Type: Review

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